I was looking for a series of books I read in elementary school during the mid-60’s about a young boy growing up in Australia. One book in particular dealt with celebrating Christmas at the beach and having a pudding with coins mixed in as prizes.
This was a favorite book of mine when I was very little at the Travelers Rest, South Carolina library between 1987-1990 (age 4-7). It was a small picture book, I believe with fairly simple illustrations on white pages. The little girl pretends she is a giant (or thinks she is a giant?). She goes through various scenarios showing this. The only page I remember clearly is when she is eating trees for her broccoli.
I’m looking for a book that, when I read it, had an orange and black cover. It was about Native Americans, and I believe had a lot of information about the Lakota tribe, Russell Means, and a young Native American girl who played basketball and became a bit of a local hero. I have no idea what the book is called, but I loved it. I believe it was written by a journalist who was not Native American, and I think it came out after Last of the Mohicans, because I believe it noted that Russell Means wrote much of his own script for the movie.
In 1973 I read an old hardcover book containing European children’s stories. The stories were probably written in the early 1900s. In one story a boy is working for a man in a village and unknowingly helps the man rob a house; the man uses a ladder to enter the second story of the house. Someone pulls up the driveway and they flee. Days later the boy returns to the village, is forgiven, and continues to be friends with the girl who lives in the house.
In 1973 I read an old hardcover book containing European children’s stories. The stories were probably written in the early 1900s. In one story a boy gets a job at a grain mill and is not accepted there. He returns later when he finds out that he has inherited the mill and they accept him with a song.
In 1976 I read a children’s full length softcover novel about a boy who moves to the country. A girl lives nearby and she claims she can do anything as well as he can. He has a weight set and can lift the heaviest weight. She can lift it, too. They visit a man who lives on a houseboat on a nearby lake. “How deep is the lake?” he asks. “Pretty deep,” she answers. “A car went in it once.” The girl sprains her ankle and the boy helps her home.
I think it was a short story within an anthology, that involved a rare (maybe Venezuelan?) spider that was the most dangerous in the world, and could paralyze people. I think there was a recluse in his mansion, that included a greenhouse or conservatory, and someone maybe have been trying to get money from him? It was a library book, so I have no idea when it would have been published, but I read it in the early 1990s.
This book I read in the 1980’s at my school library (small primary school, under 30 kids) in a very tiny town in country NSW Australia.
All I remember is that it involved a girl and boy set in England?. I think he was infatuated with her.. either he kidnapped or she went with him willingly and he took her to the moors and there was a cave there. He made her do a blood pact to tie them together. I am pretty sure he had dark hair. Thats all I remember!
The book as I remember it: Soft cover bedtime stories…blue maybe? Looked kinda like a coloring book, but was bedtime stories.
The story: Took place in a candy store, at night all the candy came alive. The only thing I really remember is the marshmallows starting to melt. It would have been in the 1960’s probably. it was my favorite story as a kid and would love to read it to my grandson. Hope you can find it…I have had no luck. Thanks.
I am looking for and requesting a children’s book that my fourth-grade teacher read to us in 1974 about a witch pretending to be a girl. She goes to school with a girl and pulls the school fire alarm.